Chapter 83

"If you want to plant, you can plant water spinach, and sweet potato. Those two kinds of vegetables are easy to live. If you cut the branches and insert them into the soil, you only need to water them twice in the morning and evening, and they will grow well. Once they have roots, it's enough to water them once a day.

If you don't have time, I'll water the vegetable field every day, or I can water it for you by the way. "

As soon as Kang Ying heard this, she was immediately excited and said, "OK, I'll dig the soil in a moment. No, I have to buy seeds first."

"You don't need to plant water spinach and sweet potato. You don't need to buy them. I have both kinds of vegetables in my vegetable field. They are cuttings, as long as the branches are planted in the soil.

If you turn over your vegetable field, go to my vegetable field, cut sweet potato vines and cabbage vines, and plant them in the evening. " Zhang Ersao said.

"OK, I see." Kang Ying remembered that in the old warehouse, there were some hoes, shovels and other farm tools. It turned out that Jiang Yuan's second aunt grew vegetables when she lived here.

It's a pity. I don't know why their family moved to the city. It's so nice to live here. They can breathe fresh air, grow vegetables and have a quiet environment.

But now people's thinking is not the same, we are afraid to live in the countryside, live in the suburbs, want to run to the center of the city.

Kang Ying takes Zhang Ersao's beans, goes home, puts them in the kitchen basket, changes into neat clothes, and prepares to go to the garden.

In order to be afraid of mosquito bites, she specially wore a pair of trousers, tied the trouser legs tightly, and sprayed mosquito repellent toilet water on her body.

Ready, Kang Ying found a hoe in the warehouse, put a straw hat on his hoe, and went to the empty vegetable field.

But recently, Kang Ying found that the project of turning vegetable fields is still very big. The weeds on the vegetable fields are already half a person high. It takes a lot of effort to weed them, let alone turning the fields after weeding.

She had to cancel the original plan and prepare to divide the construction period into two nights. It's summer now. It's not suitable to be exposed to the sun at noon. We can only hoe after six o'clock. Kang Ying estimates that it will take three or four evenings to finish.

After deciding on a plan, Kang Ying began to pick up a hoe to shovel grass. Just as he went down with a hoe, Kang Ying heard a "bang" and the hoe and hoe handle separated and fell off.

Looking at the bare hoe handle, Kang Ying is silly. What's the matter?

Zhang Er elder brother, Zhang Er sister-in-law's husband, was watering the vegetable field on the side. Hearing the news, he came to have a look and couldn't help laughing

"Is this hoe useless for a long time? The wedge between the hoe handle and the hoe knife is dry and too loose, so you drop it as soon as you exert yourself. I'll fix it for you. "

Kang Ying's eyes were silly when she heard that. What's so particular about a hoe? "Thank you so much, brother Zhang," she said quickly

"It's a piece of cake. We usually have to repair hoes. Haven't you ever planted vegetables? Haven't you ever used a hoe? So you don't even know these things? " Zhang Er Ge is tolerant.

"I've never used a hoe." Kang Ying is embarrassed.

She thought that plowing was just physical work, but she didn't expect that it involved the use of hoes and became technical work.

Zhang Er Ge picked up a thick piece of wood on the edge and cut it into a wedge shape with the edge of a hoe. He cut two pieces in a row, one thicker and the other thinner.

After cutting the wedge, brother Zhang put the handle of the hoe into the round hole on the hoe. Kang Ying understood at this time that there was still some gap between the handle and the hoe blade. If there was no wedge to compact these gaps, the hoe would not work.

Elder brother Zhang skillfully picked up the thick wedge and put it into the gap. After a try, he found that it was still relatively loose. He filled the thin wedge in again. He waved his hoe and tried it several times. In the year when the hoe arrived, all the weeds were shoveled down.

"All right, but it's better to put it in the puddle for a while, so that the wedge absorbs water and expands, so that the hoe blade and hoe handle will be more dense and won't fall off. In the future, you should always soak the hoe in the water, otherwise the wedge will fall off easily when it is dry. "

Zhang Er Ge introduced his experience.

This kind of experience is understood by people who have been using farm tools for a long time, but it is a valuable experience for Kang Ying.

She quickly repeated her thanks.

Second brother Zhang waved his hand and said that he didn't need to thank him, so he went back to his own vegetable farm again.

The hoe is easy to use. Kang Ying picks up the hoe and mercilessly eradicates the vigorous weeds such as Bidens bipinnata, Echinochloa crusgalli and Setaria viridis. In the end, he is young and quick to learn farming. Kang Ying will soon be able to weed skillfully.

After weeding a large area of weeds, Kang Ying hooked them to a corner of the open space with his hoe.

Seeing that Kang Ying was very quick in weeding, Zhang Er Ge said to her, "don't waste these weeds. They can be used as fertilizer."

Then he taught Kang Ying to hold a pile of hay from nearby and press it on the mud. Then he pressed the hay on a layer of soil. The hay was covered with weeds that had just been hoed. The weeds continued to be covered with soil, layer by layer, forming a pyramid shaped mound.

Then the match was used to light a circle along the mound, and the hay at the bottom was lit. The hay at the bottom quickly ignited an open fire, but soon, because it was covered by the soil and weeds on the top, the fire slowly weakened and could only be simmered.

Zhang Er Ge said that when this pile of grass is completely stuffy and burned to black ash, the ash will become a good fertilizer for the new vegetable garden. Under the guidance of Zhang Er Ge, Kang Ying doesn't feel tired at all. Although she is sweating all over the world in summer, she feels that her body is transparent. She worked hard to shovel the grass flat, and the original green field with weeds also showed the rudiment of the original vegetable field. This vegetable field has less than half of the land, but it's enough to grow vegetables. After weeding out, you can see the traces of the original vegetable plot. After shoveling the weeds, Kang Ying's job now is to turn over the three vegetable beds, put down the grass ash suit, and then, as Zhang Ersao said, insert sweet potatoes and cabbage vines. Kang Ying didn't feel tired when weeding. When she had to turn over the ground, she thought it was physical work. After turning over half of the field, Kang Ying was a little out of breath. Kang Ying saw that it was getting late, but she was not in a hurry, so she finished work and went home. Anyway, she wanted to realize her dream of growing vegetables in her previous life. She didn't plan to grow vegetables for sale, so she didn't have a strict schedule. She stopped if she wanted to. She carried the hoe on her shoulder in mud and sweat. When she came home, she met sister-in-law Zhang. She was surprised and asked, "Xiaokang, are you really going to grow vegetables?"“ Yes, it's inconvenient to grow some vegetables by yourself, but I always go to the vegetable market to buy them. " On hearing this, sister-in-law Zhang thought that Kang Ying wanted to save money on buying vegetables. She thought that this girl, despite her delicate skin and tender meat, was actually good at living, so she praised and said, "well, I have my own garden. I can plant whatever I want. It's fresh, delicious and cheap." Kang Ying and Zhang Ersao went home after a few words. She worked for two hours and was starving.